This Man Changed The World Then Mysteriously Disappeared
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he's making machines in Korea
There's a similar story about an Italia physicist, Google about Ettore Majorana.
Like the guy who invented the PCR test and said it wasn't a tool for seeing if ur sick or not? He died early 2020. Ye ur to fake woke to talk about real issues.
* coffs * Well, it is simple: He made a Pact with the Devil for that Invention - an invention that polluted the Air of Gods Creation and is mainly used for War and misfortune. The Pact said to grant him a fixed Amount of Time as a rich Inventor, so he killed himself on the last Day - so the Devil was unable to claim his Soul even though he suicided himself.
Noooo.
In all these years I learned so much from this guy. Incredible. Thank you for the interesting topics. Whatever it's about. I watch it with joy.
Even when I disagree with the direction of his conclusions, I still find @Thoughty2 incredibly entertaining.
Lol, Thoughty2 can talk about the science of flushing toilets and make it sound interesting. He really found his gift in life.
Yeah him and fact boy are my two favorites
Knowing someone that attempted suicide twice, some people do plan it very carefully. You never know the true hurt behind someone’s eyes until it’s too late.
These videos are like real-life Sherlock Holmes stories, with an amazing depth of research on topics, and overall, they are beautifully made.
Didn't mention Akroyd much.
He changed his name to Vin and moved to Hollywood
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And seems to have shrunk considerably.
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Damned if I’d off myself by jumping into the cold freaking ocean. I vote for the Imperial German government. They had the superior motive and opportunity. And, the mechanism in place to both commit and conceal the deed. As well as access to all his financial records. Piece of cake.
Was my first guess as well. Those in power already expected a war to come - not in the dimensions it actually came in 1914 but still a war.
I blame some ancestor of Hillary Clinton or another.
well, the "oil" motive seems far fetched because it requires a well established foreknowledge of fuels competition, which at the time would be sci-fi. however, the "WW" motive requires the same degree of foreknowledge of the war nobody wanted, planned, nor anticipated (and that was factually triggered by a distant third party (Russia))
@@sillysad3198 Those evil Russkis are always behind everything it seems.
Strange that he was leaving France but the Germans are the ones that got him. I suppose it’s possible if word had spread far enough about his invention. Classic engineer blunder to run out and tell everyone right after you create something so transformative.
At this point, these things are so obvious and common that I'm surprised they even try to hide it.
I think doing it out in the open is part of it. they get off on committing crimes and nobody being able to do anything about it
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from just watching the video i can easily believe he commited suicide. just bc on the surface everything looked nice, financially well off, friends, family, famous inventor,... doesnt mean that he was happy and never had any mental troubles. it may sound weird, but emotions simply arent rational. people cam feel like absolute dogshit even though they are living a seemingly comfortable and successful life. It is also totally possible that he got murdered though.
Can't remember where I saw it but an article on British submarines switching to diesel (from petrol), caught my attention years ago. One of the problems with petrol was this it wouldn't so much leak .... as absolutely piddle out. Diesel didn't do that - and has a lower flash point. Beneath the waves in a steel tube awash with petrol ? Anybody? No?
Lots of advantages to diesel over gas/petrol... Diesel BURNS where gas EXPLODES... for just one. Diesel has a higher energy per weight ratio, for another. Diesel engines rotate slower, producing more torque with less wear, for a third... AND all this on internal combustion, so at least on a sub', you have to consider that every stroke of the engine costs air, exactly the same as every breath by the people onboard. Finally, consider that these sub's were machines of war, same with the surface fleet. Diesel REALLY HAD build his original engines to run on a chemical cocktail, but it was easily derived from vegetable oils, including soy, peanut, and hemp, AND even as far as coal-dust. Practicality rules for mil-spec'... or at least, it did. Being able to set up a refinery to get home just about anywhere for fuel is almost a deal you can't possibly pass by. ;o)
Actuallybits a quick burn not explosion on petrol, detonation is explosion tho, source: david visard@@gnarthdarkanen7464
Life lesson: if you will massively change the world with a single invention, make it open source. You will still have the notoriety and a good chunk of money, but without the greedy assassins.
They would still go to great lengths to silence it or discredit it, plus punishing the inventor in some ghastly way. They would almost certainly be ruined.
@yestfmf true, just look at Tesla and his story. But that is one person, if more would stand up, it would be harder to silence.
Engineers always seem to be targeted when they find greatness. Good equals a target of business and transformative equals governments. Of course these attacks are always from the shadows like a stealthy serpent slithering up on an unsuspecting innocent.
Journey Into Fear, by Eric Ambler, is a good WW2 story on this theme.
You are just a great storyteller. I found out your channel recently but i watch bunch of it. Great job
Same here brotha. In like a two months time I have almost covered all his content ❤
so much conjecture though
Um, guys? Look at the name. It's a bot, and you will get massively spammed by it.
Hmmm....maybe...the guy doesn't seem to age much 😮🤐
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Well done Thoughty2 - it’s about time this was covered. I’ve always run my diesel cars on modified vegetable oil. It’s interesting to note that it was years after his engine was being produced, that the petrochemical industry devised diesel oil.
The petrochemical industry "developed" diesel fuel because it's really just a petroleum distillate that is highly efficient in diesel engines (and, on a side note, home heating fuel- yeah, in most Western countries, home heating oil is really just a lower grade of diesel fuel) and flows well through piping (which is also one reason why it's used for home heating), but wasn't terribly high demand for other uses (for example, kerosene, which also works well in diesel cycle engines - and jet engines - it was also in high demand for *lighting* and *cooking* , two things diesel isn't nearly as good for). In other words, "diesel fuel" is just what they named that segment of the petroleum distillation chain that didn't previously have a huge market use... and here was a breakout market that it was quite well suited for.
I've been bingeing your channel for the past week. Amazing subjects, humor and great delivery. Thank you for this wonderful channel 🤘🤘
How can you binge his videos, always watch them as they come out 😂
@@stopsign515 that's the very point of bingeing 🤌
That's how it goes, you stumble on his video and then can't stop watching
He invented reindeer
That was my only guess 😂
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But Ol’ Rudolph, with his nose so bright, wasn’t allowed to play with the ‘other’ (BIG OIL) Reindeer! He was to busy messing around with sustainable, very cheap biofuels… 🚢☠️
What?
Ha
One of the most excellent storytellers are out on KZhead
So glad to find your channel Thoughty2. Excellent communication skills, holding interest while providing both knowledge and entertainment.
Who knew, big business... The German government did have a motive, but this story, at least the questions it raised makes me think of another inventor that got in the way of big business...
Very good analysis! And to this day biodiesel (diesel fuel made from vegetable oil) is kept out of the discussion of green power by lies. No, you don't have to use up food crops to make it--you can make it from algae. No, it's not inefficient to depend on the growing season a crop--you can harvest algae every three days. No, it doesn't waste good arable land--you can raise algae anywhere that you can put a tank of water. No, algae's not a difficult crop--most people at some time have grown it by accident. Burning biodiesel produces very little greenhouse gases and no sulfur emissions--it's safe enough to use in enclosed spaces. Transporting it holds none of the risks of transporting petroleum--it is far less likely to explode, and if it leaks, it's biodegradable. It produces no toxic byproducts: its two byproducts are glycerine and dried algae matter. The former is an important ingredient in making non-petroleum plastics, and the latter can be fed back into the algae tank to nourish the next generation--and both, if you prefer, are compostable. The only drawback is that it doesn't always burn well in extremely cold conditions. However, since it mixes seamlessly with petroleum diesel, you could mix up a special winter blend that would still dilute and drastically reduce the use of petroleum diesel, and you don't need it all year unless you're a polar scientist. Most people wouldn't need it year-round. What's not to love?
The greatest drawback you did not mention is cost. Production is just too expensive to be economically viable. Shame, because everything you mentioned is more or less true and it has great potential.
@@PhazonBlaxor Thank you for bringing up a good point. So let's see where in the production line the cost might add up. 1. Growing algae. It's so cheap and easy that it happens by accident all the time. What's required is a tank of water (it doesn't have to be potable water; in fact dirty water is better) and sunlight. It also requires nutrients, but dumping back the leftovers after pressing oil from the last batch of algae has turned out to work very well. So far so good. 2. Pressing the oil out of the algae. That requires machinery and power. So does extracting petroleum. Of course if worst came to worst there are methods of oil extraction that date back to prehistoric times, so it can't be all that complicated. But yes, scaling it up requires expending some of the biodiesel that you create in order to extract still more biodiesel. That's called investment. 3. Removing every last trace of water from the oil. In a desert location (of which America has plenty) this could happen without human intervention. Other places would require human intervention, but not nearly as much as is required to refine petroleum, and with way less pollution. 4. Producing lye to break the oil into biodiesel. Our grandmothers used to do that with wood ash. Wood lye (potassium hydroxide) would in fact be preferable to commercial lye (sodium hydroxide) which makes a harder soap but who needs hardened fuel? Some pollution would result, but most of that can be recaptured in the smoke and reburnt, using modern catalytic technology. 5. Break the oil molecule. This is basically the same process as is used for making soap. The difference is using oil that has had every trace of water removed; if any water gets in, you wind up with soap instead of biodiesel. We already have factories that produce soap that aren't going out of business anytime soon, so I don't think that would be expensive. 6. Shipping off the byproduct (glycerine) to be made into non-petroleum based plastic by a process involving potato starch. How cheap or expensive these steps are seems to largely depend on whether you want to go plain or fancy--for instance, sun-drying versus kiln-drying. The fancier you get, the swifter or more productive, but you have to weigh whether the increase in production or speed will ultimately pay for the increase in expense.
@@PhazonBlaxor Why care about cost when you can make it yourself? It only reqwuires a basic knowledge of chemistry.
@@mernokallat645 You think it's cheaper to make something by yourself, than with economics of scale in play? Well, you'll be a billionare soon, congrats. :D
@@PhazonBlaxor It'n not about money. It's about fun. Chemistry is a great hobby and if it was not among your favorite subjects we have nothing to talk about.
He was that good at hiding in plain sight, he even became the wwf world champion in the mid 1990s and not a single person noticed who he really was!!!!!!
I'm exactly at minutes 12:22 and my conclusion is...he was murdered. No witnesses, pajama folded. His clothes folded, anyone like him would have taken their own life looking his best for the last time.
Intriguing, absolutely incredible information. I can't tell you how much more engrossed I have become as I have been subscribed for a while but this new stuff is over the top. I am definitely hitting the I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTIME you drop a new story, I LOVE IT, I have learned things here I never knew and I'm not a spring chicken by any means. BRAVO!
As always, I love your stories, but this one gives me chills. Good job, my man. And thank you, because I never knew who the inventor of the diesel engine was I didn’t know the story will be the tragic.
Didn’t an Australian inventor die in suspicious circumstances after designing an engine that ran on hydrogen and used water as fuel??
There are maybe 8 inventers of alternative fuell engines who died in creative ways.
@@1SciFiGeek508 Really? Do you have any information on this? I find this stuff fascinating!!
@@requiscatinpace7392 the best synopsis is in a you tube channel, the why files. Episode "how to build a ufo". It's a great channel but for the alternative fuel, any good book on the subject will cover the "accidents". If you don't want sit through the entire episode fast fwd to the 20 minute mark
Yeah it was, allegedly he was poisoned
The cross in his diary could not have been a reminder for him, but for anyone who found it. It was to show that it wasn’t because he didn’t have time to write in it like if it had been an accident. He also didn’t know when or if the book would be looked at
Yeah but if he wanted to make it that obvious why didn't he also write "bye y'all " ?
i mean it was obviously gonna be looked at after so if it was a suicide wouldn’t he write something to his wife instead of just crossing a date
As always …. Well articulated… absolutely love this channel
By far one of my favorite inventors of all time, he wrote of environmental warnings with his invention. It's also rumored it could run on coal dust! 😢 I didn't know it was possible to miss someone I had never met before him 😭
Love this guy been watching for years! Think im finally going to order some merch! Thank you for making my work days so much better! ❤
The other side of the coin could have been a way to disappear to live out his life in peace. One of the best ways to vanish is to create the illusion of suicide, if he had a full facial beard, then shaving it all off would have changed his looks, he could have booked passage under another name, thus giving him another room to sleep in and to change his appearance, by getting the steward to wake him at a set time was guarantee way of having the ship searched fully and a way finding the neatly folded clothes. Because of the investigation that was going on nobody would have noticed a clean shaven man leaving the ship when it docked in the UK As to the body found that could have been a red herring, the fishing boat have freezer boxes to put the body into so that it could be turned over to the police once in port, they could have been given these items to just hand over to the police, if they had been given enough cash under the table to drop the items into salt water and let them sit in it to make it looks as if they had been pulled from a body. Sometimes it’s the simple things that get over looked.
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Ok, I've been following this channel since its early days. I've seen Arran's style evolve from year to year. But he has always been a very good story teller and always had a knack for finding and presenting very interesting story very few people know of from a very interesting point of view. Even though he is a few years younger than me, imo, 42 is a complete daddy! You go, Daddy!
Always a great day when Thoughty uploads. Love your videos man.
Id already hear about the oil industry's involvement in Diesels death and i honestly think it was them that killed Diesel.
I do believe that it was probably murder but I do have one other theory. He wanted people to think it was an accident or murder. Perhaps for some large life insurance or just out of shame. And another one I thought of while typing this out. What if he didn't die? Would it not have been quite convenient for the british or german to just keep a bright man working (involuntary) in a basement somewhere? I mean no one ever did examine his body.
OR... Diesel overpowered his would-be killer and shot him with his own pistol. Not wishing to be arrested as a suspected murderer, Diesel took off his coat and hat, folded them neatly and left them where they could be found the next morning. He then quickly changed clothes with the dead man, and also exchanged wallets and other personal effects. He then tossed the corpse overboard, expecting it to be found and identified as Diesel. Diesel himself would simply lie low until the ship arrived in London (remember, it was only an English Channel crossing, so a rather brief sailing), then disembark with nobody recognizing him. Where to next? Well, perhaps the British Admiralty, where he would complete his deal with the British Navy and obtain their version of Witness Protection, complete with new identity and a nice little place in the Cotswalds. And while he would miss his wife, he soon discovered that his trilingual savoir-faire and bulging pocket-book would attract no shortage of English country lasses willing to keep the Guvnah company.
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Thank you Mr. 42 for another video 🫡 I shall eat my lunch and enjoy
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Maybe he is reincarnated as Vin Diesel.😅
This shouldn’t have made me laugh 😂
A true *family* man
@justincarreras7753 Thank 😊 you and now he's fast and furious with cars 🚗
I think, that they're actually related.
Ok dad. Lol.
Thanks for posting thoughty2. I never get tired of watching your videos
Of course, if he WAS murdered, I guess the killer would have forced Rudolf at gunpoint to remove his hat and coat first, so that the killer could fold them up after shooting Rudolf and tossing him overboard. On the other hand, people WILL do odd things to prepare themselves for a suicide, carrying their reasons for doing so to their death.
Glad YT had your channel/story pop-up for me to see! Big history buff and your short story is well narrated and quite interesting Sir! Tks
I get to decide what happened to him??? Oh, the power!
He's actually got a RSL sponsorship, he's finally done it..
It brings me great delight after a long working day to be educated and entertained with the famous “Hey Thoughty2 Here”
Hi Thoughty2. I love your videos man. Brilliantly presented.
Thank you for another great video. I always really enjoy the story and your delivery of the story!
I really enjoy your story telling. You should look into narrating books on tape.
He has wrote his own book. If that might interest you.
I'm surprised ( and disappointed ) you didn't at least give a passing nod to Douglas Brunt who, only last week, released his book "The Mysterious Case Of Rudolf Diesel". Coincidence ?
Thanks for this well presented story. I now know who invented my diesel cars!
I hope you're free of suffering, and proud of your achievements now, Herr Diesel.
3:37 I'm losing it here. "Sort of arrogant bastard".... HAHAHAHAHAHA
I've been watching you since just b4 the pandemic, and I just gotta say, you always give your audience something interesting to ponder on, or file away in their trivia knowledge. 😉 Makes one feel smarter.😁🤭🤗👍🇨🇦
Excellent video. I had no idea about this. Way to go sharing this history. Seems always intrigues surrounding powerful new technologies.
It took a few decades of improvements in metallurgy and machining to make the Diesel engine more practical.
Speaking of Diesel, back in 2009 or 201, in the back of a MaCleans magazine (in Canada) there was a half page "tech" essay about a small company in Ontario which had developed a species of photosynthesizing bacteria which, in the presence of sunlight, water and CO2, produced pure biodiesel as a waste product. They'd taken it through prototype stage and were producing diesel in several pools. Great things were foreseen. I've never heard a blip since. Is this something anyone else has ever come across? Certainly a cheap source of diesel would have been a game changer. Perhaps problems adapting to true commercial production were insurmountable. It's just strange that, even though I've searched, I've NEVER found a single mention of this anywhere since. "'Curiouser and curiouser', said Alice"
I've heard about this as well. The Biotech inventors were probably bumped off, or coerced into selling their ideas to the oil companies, who then just sat on said ideas, actively preventing their use.
One problem with the “prevent the license” theory is the RN was putting diesel powered subs into service in 1910 or earlier. The “D class” is an example. Perhaps this is one of the patent litigation disputes. Of course a little thing like a patent would stop a government from using a key technology in military hardware if that patent is owned by a foreign national of a potentially hostile power. Would Diesel get a “fair legal process?” Just research the litigation between Alfred Nobel and the UK over the Ballistite versus Cordite and decide. That litigation turned on interpretation of the patent claim of “nitrocellulose of the well known soluble kind.” Anyway WW I might’ve made the patent irrelevant just like AG Bayer lost the trademark “Aspirin” in the USA.
I've been in the Auto industry a lot in my life, first as a technician and now as a parts delivery driver. The Deisel engine is just as popular as the Gasoline engine. And most Deisel engines will run on Kerosene and Fuel Oil just as easily as the Deisel fuel from a gas station.
I grew up as the daughter of a diesel mechanic (He now works on generators but still occasionally does engine work) and when I first learned about the inventor of the Diesel Engine, I was vastly intrigued, so this is incredibly interesting. It's truly a mystery that feels like something a murder-mystery writer would come up with.
I see someone tuned into Carter’s podcast haha rudolf’s story is very perplexing so the more perspectives, the better! It’s about uncrackable as uncrackable gets
I love how your videos they always end in such a high note makes you feel good you watched them¡¡
Cool episode. This is one of my favourite KZhead channels.
Interesting topic! I enjoyed watching it. Thanks! The next time I will hear the word "diesel", this story will surely pop up in my mind.
The compression ignition engine, now ubiquitous as the Diesel engine, made waves for it's usability in undeveloped countries because it would run on peanut/vegetable oil. I remember a day, because of the fuels that carbon would build up in the upper half of cylinders and valve seats. The tendency for those cars to keep turning over after the ignition, the "chock-a-clunk-clock" as it were was an effect of the hot unburned material in the cylinder tops. It was a compression ignition artifact and was called, "Dieseling".
Thanks for this intriguing video. I guess Rudolf Diesel is probably one of the most important engineers to have ever existed. His name is on a par with Archimedes. But his mysterious disappearance is not well known. My guess is murder. Another famous disappearance from someone on a ship is Robert Maxwell, the CEO of the huge media conglomerate.
Hey great story! Thank you so much! As Have been a mechanic entire life, and diesel engines in my personal opinion, are the best. However depends who manufactures them of course :-) Look forward to more of your educational stories! Thanks again stay well keep up the great work and have a beautiful day.!👍🙏
You nearly had me there. Diesel and Linde were in fact the premier comedy act at the less respectable theatres of Vienna, as every fool knows.
Fantastic channel and story telling, keep up the good work.
Neat video like always! Love the stuff you do man
Diesel! Vin diesel's FAAAMAAALAAAIII
My man works in the company founded by the company of Diesel on that ship, they also got the first ever license to build the engines. The company has strong links with the uk, the name is literally anglo Belgian company, look it up
Yo love your vids keep on educating!!
You are an astonishingly good storyteller. I am glad that I found you somehow.
Excellent research, with the finger pointing most likely for me to the Kaiser's assassins.
14:56 Cut to Greta's face: "Shame on you!" Hugely missed opportunity here. 😆
Douglas Brunt literally just put out a book a couple of days ago about Rudolph diesel. Lol. I see your always at your A-game.
i wish someone constantly reminding me about the safety glasses.
How do you find all these interesting stories and tales thoughty2?
Awareness and open mind 🙂
This is the best video I've seen all day! 👍
you win m8
If only i were you
On the balance of the evidence, he was done in! Thanks for another interesting vid!
He was on the plane with Amelia Erhard
I'm so glad you came back into my life tonight! It's like you've been waiting in the shadows for me to do these mushrooms.🎉
You got a like for that sunshine joke alone. I love your content. 🌞
I'm a forklift driver, and the forklift that I'm working with is actually a linde
Fantastic, as always, thank you.
Why does he talk so much about Linde but somehow they aren't part of the conspiracy?
Good question. He was the motivation for him to invent an invention that would be his own. It is a different sort of motivation to come up with something so fantastic.
0:16 That's not where Harwich is, it's 50 miles NE from there, even as 'the crow flies', so actually much nearer to Ipswich.
Outstanding production!
Thoughty2 getting better looking. Go you my man.
Hello and good morning, early gang!!😁
Nobody can convince me he is not saying “42”
Nobody’s trying.
Thank you for this incredible video, keep up the amazing work
Didn't a similar thing happen to the guy who made the car that ran on water?
OOOf that Raid sponsor segment was painful. You don't gotta lie bro
You really do just upload banger after banger. What an interesting topic.
Thankful for modern day Story Tellers like Thoughty2!
Yay been checking every hour for a new one 😂
It's true that diesel engines can run on vegetable oils. I knew a man that would fill his truck up with old McDonald's frying oil that he'd get for free. He had to process it a bit, vut it worked fine. His truck smelled like french fries.
Standard Thoughty2 video. Wonderful. Thank you.
I think he was murdered by one of the many horses he put out of work.
Very interesting. I'd never heard of this case. Thank you for the clear explanation and thought provoking questions.
It boggles me how people are so quick to accept official stories of suicide. Sure, the vast majority of suicides are simply that, however, in a lot of notable cases, murder for money is a clear and obvious factor. I wish people were more suspicious